Hot Air Balloon Birthday Card

Hi all,

With Father’s Day approaching I’ve been in the mood to make masculine cards not just for Father’s Day but for other occasions as well. So today I’m sharing a masculine birthday card with you.

I started out with this great 6×6 paper collection called Old World Travel from Carta Bella. The patterns are perfect for masculine cards. I added some inking to the edges of all the papers to add to that vintage old world feel.

For the focal image I turned to one of my favorite Hero Arts stamp sets called Past Times. It’s an older stamp set, but it has such great classic masculine images that I always grab it to make masculine cards. The sentiment comes from the Masculine Motifs stamp set by Papertrey Ink. To embellish I used some brown enamel dots.